The Uncanny Valley - A future problem for gaming?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

windbane said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
Thus far I haven't yet felt it for games.
I did for movies: I find hyperthyroid eyes in Toy Story and other movies with CG disturbing, and Shrek's characters' skin creepy.
I find real human-like robots' skin, mouth, eyes and hair creepy too.

ok, apparently this guy talks about it with movies. I don't know anyone else that had the same complaints about those movies. Toy Story was a bunch of toys...they weren't even trying to look real. They were moving toys, Whatever. I don't find uncanny valley to be a universal thing with people like, say, human attraction seems to favor certain attributes because of biological factors. I think some people are bothered by certain things, but in general it's not an issue.

Yes, I had not seen the clip yet, so I was talking about my very personal experience, and really Uncanny Valley is a very subjective phenomenon (although Kant would say that EVERY phenomenon is subjective ).

I did mention eyes in Toy Story because it started this particular thing and after it those disturbing eyes found their way in lots other CG movies. Regarding skin, when it falls in the dreaded valley it looks like either covered with a bad, not heavy, but "flat" make-up, or worse belonging to an embalmed corpse.

@famousringo: now I've seen the clip and I find it creepy for the same reasons you mention.

 

One thing I should add: when you play a game, immersion made possible by good games adds realism in different ways from pure graphic accuracy, so I think that it should be possible to avoid Uncanny Valley.